Who do you have your money on? Who will take home the Oscar? If you want to come up on some quick money on betting on this year’s Oscar’s winning actresses, learn everything you need to know about the ladies nominated for best actress at this years Academy Awards after the jump.

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The nominees for an Academy Award for Best Actress are Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook, Quvenzhane Wallis for Beasts of the Southern Wild, Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty, Naomi Watts for The Impossible and Emmanuelle Riva for Amour.

Peep photos and clips of their performance from each movie in the gallery.